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I meet Malinda Seneviratne occasionally, sometimes in the space of three months and sometimes three weeks. I met him properly over a year ago, at a café in Colombo – the Commons, on Flower Road – with a friend of mine who was assisting me with a book and who had wanted for some time to meet him.

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It’s not easy to catch him, but then again it’s not easy to catch me either. I am not complaining.

Malinda is easily one of the country’s most gifted writers, not just in English but also Sinhala. The man has more sides to him than we might first think.

Every conversation with him is a revelation: you feel you know him better than the last time, yet five or 10 minutes in, you feel otherwise.

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More than anything, he is a straight thinker who refuses to think straight: “You think like a Cartesian!” he complains to me, often in front of others. “Life is not Cartesian.”

I first met him in 2014. 10 years ago, almost to the date.

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